I’ve referred to the approximately 20 minutes of dilly-dallying by the Garden City (Kansas) Community College coaches and trainers in the Braeden Bradforth death — led by head coach Jeff “Act of God” Sims, before he eased on down the road to Missouri Southern State University.

Young’s email itself can be viewed at http://muchnick.net/calebyoung.pdf. Note that this memo, composed 30 days after Bradforth collapsed and died from exertional heat stroke (EHS), is still nothing close to contemporaneous. Remember, too, that the college also claims the relevant campus surveillance video got routinely overwritten — perhaps because you can’t preserve everything, and we all know that 19-year-old football players die all the time.

In addition to its contribution to the timeline, the Young account adds to our knowledge of the water poured over Bradforth before the 911 call. Yet Sims succeeded in hoodwinking the media into a first-day story that the newly transplanted New Jerseyan had suffered a heart attack caused by a blood clot. The Finney County coroner would find that it was EHS. Experts say fatal EHS is inexcusable.

Congressman Chris Smith, the New Jersey Republican who has been leading the bipartisan call by the state’s U.S. House of Representatives delegation for a truly independent investigation, said, “I urge the college to be open and forthcoming without awaiting additional [open records] requests. This may just be the tip of the iceberg.”

Irv says:

Investigative journalism is not “peer-reviewed scientific literature.” It is a contact sport. My version of it favors transparent and interactive relationships with readers and sources. I also recognize that backstories and their interpretation are organic; I strive for what is, at best, the second draft of history.